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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Complaints against the Allied blockade have been registered by Argentina, Chile, Japan, The Netherlands, Belgium, the Scandinavian countries, the U. S. But these complaints were private. Last week Germany's big new friend Russia complained formally, officially. In a note handed at Moscow to British Ambassador Sir William Seeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Blockades | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Lampy's literary standards fell to a new low Saturday with the publication of a story which had previously been handed in as an English A-1 theme and returned with a grade of E.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPOON STORY FLUNKED BY EX-PRESIDENT OF ADVOCATE | 10/31/1939 | See Source »

First hint that something unpleasant was a-brewing for Browder & Co. came via the Republican National Committee's alert publicity man, Franklyn Waltman. In the name of Republican Congressman (and Dies Committeeman) John Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, Mr. Waltman handed the following poison-ivy bouquet to Attorney General...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Curious Coincidence | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

One construction company which is not usually afraid to bid is the industry's aristocratic Turner Construction Co. About half of its business is handed to it on a cost-plus basis without the indignity of competitive bidding, and it boasts that in four years picked at random (1923...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: Business Builds | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

On the home front in Flushing, L. I, heavy-handed Harvey Dow Gibson (Fair board chairman & potent Manufacturers Trust Co. president) wooed U. S. exhibitors. To entice them in again next year he:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Tomorrow and 1940 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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